Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Third Edition
Bruce J. Fried, PhD
Myron D. Fottler, PhD
ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-299-7
Hardbound, 544 pp, 2008
Imprint: AUPHA/HAP Book
Order code: WWW1-2115
Price: $100.00
Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Third Edition, presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people—the healthcare industry’s most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees.
Key Features:
This edition includes:
An expanded chapter on health and safety in the workplace, highlighting disaster preparedness and management
A new chapter on globalization and the mobile workforce
A new chapter focusing on employee benefits and benefit design
An expanded chapter on training and career development
A new section containing complex cases
Chapters include cases, discussion questions, and exercises
Covers fundamental topics as well as timely issues
Bruce J. Fried, PhD, is associate professor and director of the residential master’s degree program in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches in the areas of human resources management, international and comparative health systems, and globalization and health. Dr. Fried is also coeditor of and contributor to World Health Systems: Challenges and Perspectives.
Myron D. Fottler, PhD, is professor and executive director of the Health Services Administration Programs at the University of Central Florida, where he teaches courses in healthcare human resources management, service management and marketing, and dissertation research. He has written and published 18 books and more than 100 journal articles.
